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Camilla lay still in the pristine, lavish hospital bed, her fingers digging so hard into the starch-stiffened white sheets that her knuckles turned bone-white. The glowing screen of her phone had just gone dark, but the crisp, apologetic voice of her elite dance troupe’s director still echoed relentlessly in her ears. Her newly snapped leg injury meant she could not perform. The coveted lead role